In December alone this amounted to over 1.2 billion messages blocked by the company. Wireless Services Corporation, which runs the data networks transporting text messages for several carriers inNorth America, manages between 15 and 20 percent of all such traffic in the U.S.
“Everyone hates spam, whether it lands in your e-mail mailbox or mobile phone,” said Rich Begert, president and CEO, Wireless Services Corporation. “But with mobile spam, consumers have to pay for the delivery of annoying, unwanted messages to their personal phone. Even worse, some of the spammers will try to trick you into making an expensive call or will attempt to change the device settings on your own phone.”
